Life & Other Stories

30 Before 30: DONE!
Oh my God! I can’t believe I will be turning 30 in less than a week—eep!—and this list I’ve been dragging along for a good 4 years will finally hit its finish line. If you weren’t…

Dear Decade: A Love Letter to My 20s
How do I even start this? It feels so surreal that we are at the end of the line here…

Life Through the Lens v.03
By the time you are reading this, I would have already gotten back from Makassar…

Life Through the Lens v.02
t’s yet another time for some analog frames! I got these developed…

My Relationship with Islam at 29
Ihave been a Muslim since birth, so for the whole 29 years of my life, I’ve always been…

Serve and Smash!
One of the things I managed to develop this month is a new hobby: badminton. I wouldn’t say it’s new—I used to play all the time with my family when I was in…

Life Through the Lens v.01
Back in 2017, I bought an analog camera at Low Light Bazaar 11. It was the first analog…

Lessons Learnt: Self-Publishing
Two years ago, when I started out on my thesis…

Embracing (in)Sanity
While 2020 is objectively very challenging for us all—with the giant curve ball it threw…